You can draw flow
lines in flowcharts and organizational charts to connect chart shapes. Objects
stay connected by these lines even when you move one or both objects.
You can draw callout lines that label and draw attention to objects.

You can also draw dimension lines to indicate the distance between two points in
a drawing or the size of objects. By default, dimension lines and the
measurements shown on the lines change when you change an object’s size.

You can set how dimension lines are displayed. For example, you can specify
dimension units, style, and precision as well as add a prefix or suffix to the
dimension text. You can also set default values for all new dimension lines that
you create.

Dimension lines can show the sizes of parts of an object.

To be able to use flow, callout, and dimension lines with precision, you need to
snap them to specific nodes in objects

Process to draw a
dimension line

Vertical dimension tool —
to create a vertical dimension line that measures the vertical distance between
any two nodes (along the y-axis)

Horizontal dimension tool —
to create a horizontal dimension line that measures the horizontal distance
between any two nodes (along the x-axis)

Slanted dimension tool —
to create a slanted dimension line that measures the length of slanted line
segments

Auto dimension tool —
to
create a vertical or horizontal dimension line

Click the start point and endpoints of
the dimension line.

Click where you want to place the
dimension text.

You can also

Draw an angular dimension line

Click the
Angular dimension tool button
on the property bar. Click where you want the two lines that measure the
angle to intersect. Click where you want the first line to end, and
click where you want the second line to end. Click where you want the
angle’s label to appear